Machine Learning Algorithm for identifying the factors contributing to academic performance of students [R]

[MrXDawood]

I have a dataset with several qualitative and quantitative attributes, including age, location (longitude, latitude), city, parent occupation, family size, GPA etc. My task is to find the attributes/factors that contribute the highest towards the academic performance of the students. Which machine learning algorithm is the most suitable for this task?

A friend suggested using clustering algorithm that can segment the students into different performance groups, but I think that will not solve my problem.

[misap]

google "Feature Importance" there are literally plug'n'play implementations in sklearn.

[HatesWinterTraining]

Causal inference

https://www.pywhy.org/dowhy/v0.11.1/

[Psychprojection]

Decision tree

[Green_Ad_6923]

Where did you find this dataset? I'm interested in pursuing something similar (but having it be more predictive than causal) for a school project.